Here, let’s say, an example from England - regarding real criminals.
From here: [DLMURL] https://yushchuk.livejournal.com/310502.html [/ DLMURL]
Competitive intelligence experts are well acquainted with such a phenomenon as "active events". Public services, including the police, are gradually transferring the experience of active events to the Internet. Pretty successful.
Further - a quote from the site [DLMURL] https://www.gazeta.ru [/ DLMURL]
UK police caught 19 wanted criminals, asking them to pick up free beer
British Derbyshire police arrested 19 wanted criminals who believed in the contents of the letters that said the recipient won a box of free beer, the Daily Telegraph reports.
Police officers sent out identical letters to dozens of email addresses of hiding criminals.
They were asked to get a box of free beer, for which they needed to call the number of an allegedly marketing company.
The criminals called the time and place where it would be most convenient for them to pick up beer, where a police outfit went out and arrested the wanted persons.
“These suspects managed to escape arrest for a long time, so we used various tactics to catch them,” the Derbyshire Inspector Graham McLaughlin told the newspaper.
Detained people are charged with crimes of burglary and robbery before rape, the publication said.